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== Swarm ==
The Volrani (as they are known by the Ppuk in their ancient tongue) are the attack dogs of the race known as Heritage. The oldest Ppuk sources on Heritage describe the Volrani being originally aquatic creatures on their homeworld, later modified by nano evolutionary tech to be suitable for the void after their homeworld was destroyed. This nano technology changed the creatures immensely, no longer were they simple gentle giants: now they were creatures of the void able to eat the stuff of stars and turn it into Phase Point drives and weapon systems. Each Volrani starts its life free of implants, but with a massive hunger, not a hunger for flesh, but a hunger for metals and volatile gas; its nano evolutionary tech allows it to break down ships, asteroids and even planets into energy and new materials with which to arm itself. Adults can reach lengths in excess of thousands of meters with meters of silica and iron armor plating. Volrani travel in packs lead by an Ancient Bull,  numbering in the tens or hundreds or thousands, and use these packs to protect themselves from Ppuk hunters as the oldest specimens will often hide tech from their vanished creators. Swarm fleets will most often be concentrated around systems with a large Heritage presence as if guarding the tombs of their masters but Volrani Packs will often go hunting among the inhabited systems of the galaxy and this is where their "Swarm" epithet comes from. Often numerous Packs will go hunting in one sector of the galaxy, eating ships, space stations and anything else that takes their fancy before returning to breed. They are known to track down ships that have breached the space of Heritage worlds and followed them to back to their homeworld as well, laying waste to their planet's in reverence for their lords.